Back to the Syracuse Orange Newsfeed

ACC basketball rankings: Virginia is top dog; Clemson, Syracuse rise; Josh Pastner smashes face mask

Ladies and gentlemen, girls and boys, welcome back for another week of the proud, preeminent, TNIAAM ACC basketball rankings.

For those of you who celebrated Valentine’s Day, congratulations. Contrary to what Ted Valentine believes the holiday is actually not meant to celebrate his existence.

Anyway, other than Josh Pastner smashing his face mask and a Nick Honor game-winner, last week in ACC basketball was by and large insignificant. That’s seems fitting for the conference this year. The NCAA Tournament Selection committee unveiled its top 16 teams and the ACC only had one team — Virginia as a No.